“The Trial Of Sean Combs” Episode Thirteen | Kid Cudi’s Shocking Testimony

0:10 Get ready to dive deep into one of the most gripping legal battles of our time. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today we're unraveling the high stakes drama surrounding one of the music industry's most enematic figures, Sean Diddy Combs, in a case that has captivated millions. The courtroom has become a battleground for fame, fortune, in the dark secrets that lurk beneath the glittering surface of celebrity life. As the gavel comes down, we'll explore the allegations, the testimonies, and the shocking twists that could change the course of Diddy's legacy forever. Was this case merely a clash of lifestyles or something much more sinister? With each episode, I will bring you exclusive insights, analysis, and witness testimony accounts that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

1:23 So buckle up as we embark on this thrilling ride through the trial of the century, where the stakes are high, the drama is real, and the truth is anything but certain. This is the Trial of Sean Combs. Let's get started and we are back. It is the twenty second day of May and another day in the trial of Sean Comb's Now just a quick update of what occurred yesterday.

2:05 In the trial, a federal agent, a former executive assistant, and a clinical and forensic psychologists testified. Juror Gannon, a federal special agent who planned the search of comebs Miami home last year, walked jurors through pictures of items seized at that property. Among those items cell phone stuffed inside a designer boot, a designer bag filled with drugs including ketamine and MDMA, dozens of bottles of lubricant, and a forty five caliber handgun in a red suitcase. I told you about Dawn Hughes, a clinical and forensic psychologist who testified about the impact of trauma. She told jurors that victims of domestic violence often stay with their abusers and sometimes delay disclosing what they have expect experience. Now, the prosecution called Hughes to attempt to rebute the defense suggestion that Ventura could have left Comb's. George Caplan, a former assistant to Comb's who was granted immenity to testify. He told jurors that Diddy threatened his job almost monthly. He told jurors how he bought supplies for Combe's hotel room, including candles, baby oil, and lubricant. And that's where we're picking up today. That is the continuation of George Caplan's testimony.

3:34 He returns to the witness stand and prosecutor Maureen Combey will be questioning him today. So Caplin begins his testimony by discussing an incident that he witnessed between Combs and Casting in twenty fifteen during a private plane ride to Las Vegas. He testified that he was seated at a table on that plane and he heard glass shattering and saw Comb standing over Cassie with a whiskey glass while she was on her back with her legs out, trying to create space and basically try to kick Combs away from her. He heard a scuffle and then Cassie screamed, quote isn't anybody seeing this? Unquote, before hearing more glass crashing.

4:21 Now. Caplan testified that he was only twenty three years old at this time, and he said security did not intervene, nor did he He said Combs came up to sit in the plane's cabin, but told Cassie to stay in the back, where a bedroom was located behind a partition. Caplan also recalled having to rush out of Comb's home to buy health and beauty items to cover up nasty bruises on Ventura's face. He recalled the incident which occurred in Los Angeles in twenty fifteen, when he said he saw a visibly upset Cassie with bruising under her right eye eyebrow that prompted Combs to order him to get over the counter lotions in remedies to mask the discoloration.

5:08 He went on to say that he specifically remembered buying witch Hazel. He further testified that he left his job as Comb's assistant in December of twenty fifteen because he was not comfortable with the physical behavior he witnessed over the months in that role. He said it was a challenging decision, but that he knew it was the right thing to do. In addition to the plane incident, he also said he witnessed and attended to cassis wounds at different times. He told the court of an incident where he saw Combs throwing decorative apples at another woman. Let me tell you about that incident. It occurred in Miami between Combs and a woman named Gina. Kaplain testified that he saw in angry Combs through three of the apples at Gina as she tried to shield herself. Said he heard a commotion later that night, was screaming back and forth.

6:04 After that, Caplan said he gave Combs a medicine bag. Now others have testified that Combs had a Louis Viton medbag full of illicit drugs, so you know what was in there. Caplan said he put in his resignation on September of twenty fifteen, but that the reason he gave Combs was that his father was sick with cancer. He said that Combs was very gracious at the time, but also testified that he had to compartmentalize his experience working for Combs and even had to lie right to get out. Of that job. And with that defense lawyer Mark Agnafillo, he turns and he approaches that witness stand and he cross examines Caplin, and he kind of pressed Caplin on if he enjoyed his time for the most part with Diddy working for him, and Caplan said that despite resigning after witnessing distressing acts of violence, he still praised Combs and said he enjoyed working for him. Caplin called his work for Combs one of the most incredible times of his life, and he said did he was gracious when accepting that resignation. He went on to say that working as Combe's assistant was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and he said that employment pushed him to depths he never knew he was capable of, and that his friends would describe it as his version of Harvard University in his field. If he would have been working yesterday, if he were still employed

7:36 by Combs, which that would have been May twenty first, and caplen responded to that question with now and when asked why, Caplin elaborated that May twenty first was Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Small's or Notorious Big. Some people called him Big. That was his birthday, and Combs gave everyone the day off from work to mark the nineteen seventy two day when Wallace was born, and of course Big was gunned down in Los Angeles on March ninth of nineteen ninety seven. The defense then asked Kaplin about the decorative apple throwing incident. I told you about just a minute ago and Agniphillo asked him if he ever reported that incident to anyone. Caplin testified he didn't have a recollection of telling anyone outside of the security team about that incident, and then Agniphillo asked Kaplin if Combs had ever threatened him personally, to which Caplin responded his job was threatened by Combs pretty frequently, but said he was never subjected to threats of physical violence from Diddy.

8:47 And with that, the defense releases the witness and the prosecution calls Rapper Scott Muscudi, also known as Kid Cuddy, to the stand now. As Cassie defied last week, she had a brief relationship with Kid Cutty in December of twenty eleven, and that prompted a threat of violence and blackmail. According to Cassie from Combs, so Kig Cutty takes the stand. He mentions that he briefly met Cassie at an event in two thousand and eight, but they didn't start to date until two thousand and eleven. According to Cutty, Cassie was having problems with Combs at the time, and to his knowledge, he said, the couple was not dating when Cassie and Kid Cutty got together. Kid Cutty testified he got a call from Cassie in December of twenty eleven, and she was saying that Combs had found out about the couple and that she asked him to pick her up.

9:47 She was nervous, and she told kig Cutty that Combs was abusive. Now. Once Cassie was with him, kig Cutty said he took her to an upscale hotel to keep her safe and away from Combs. At one point, he said he received a call letting him know that Comb's and an associate were at kid cutt He's home. Cut He said the call was made by Comb's employee at the time, Capricorn Clark, and Cassie was on speakerphone with Capricorn Claw. Cut He discussed how angry he was when Combs allegedly broke into his home in the Hollywood Hills, as you would imagine, and he said that Combs was remarkably calm when he called to confront him about it.

10:33 He went through it and he said Comb's answered the phone with what's up, and Cutty said, motherfucker, you are in my house, and he said Combs responded with I am here. Waiting for you. He went on to say he wanted to fight Combs, but reminded himself that he didn't know who Combs might have with him. Kid Cutty testified about his car catching fire one day in twenty twelve while he was about forty five minutes away from home. He said that his dog sitter called to tell him what was happening, and he rushed home. He went on to say a friend sent him photos that showed the top of his Porsche open where a Molotov cocktail was thrown in. Prosecutors then showed photos of that car in court and had Kid Cutty describe them. And I have those photos and I'm going to upload those to the Patreon for y'all to check out for the celebrity members. Now, remember that earlier in this trial, Cassie had testified and she said that Comes threatened her and Kid Cutty, saying that he wanted to set fire to Kid Cutty's car in the man's driveway. Well, seems like that came to fruition, right.

11:45 She also told the court that Comes assured her that it would not be by his hands and he would make sure he was out of the country when it happened. All this lining up with when that Molotov cocktail was thrown into his vigor. So Cutty testified that the pair agreed to see each other, him and Combs at an La Hotel meeting room, and he said when he got there, Combs was already there. He described Combs as calmly looking out of the window with hands behind his back, and he said he looked like a Marvel supervillain. He went on to say that Combe's calmness during their meeting after that car fire was off putting to him. He said, at the end of the meeting, he shook hands with Combs and asked Combs what they were going to do about his car. Combs told Cuddy he didn't have any idea what he was talking about. Combs then asked if they were cool, to which Cuddy responded that hey, man, you burned up my car. At that point, the meeting ended, and he said a few years after that meeting, Combs gave him what he called a general apology for the past, saying it was the last thing that he expected to hear from Combs. So it's The defense turned to cross examine Kid Cuddy and Brian Steele the defense attorney handled that he approaches the witness stand and he asked Kid Cutty about that meeting he had with Combs, and as he was asking him, he kind of characterized it as

13:17 a relationship where both men were played by a female. Cutty actually agreed with Steel and responded true when Still asked if the person who played both men was Cassie. Still then asked kid Cutty if Cassie was living two different lives, to which he responded that she was. The defense them rusted and the prosecution did a short redirect and they asked Kid Cutty what Cassie had told him about Combe's abuse, and Cutty said that Cassie informed him that Combs would hint and sometimes kick her. And he also discussed why he and Cassie needed to stop seeing each other, and he said, quote, the drama was two out of hand and I had to give her some space.

14:05 And with that, the prosecution released him and court broke for lunch. Now, next up was Mala Morales and let me tell you who this was. It was a makeup artist Cassie Ventura mentioned in her testimony last week. Ventura told the court Morales stayed behind to take a nap as she and her friends went to a last minute party at Princess home, but Ventura rushed back once she saw Combs, whom she said she didn't speak to and get permission from before going to that party. Now, according to Ventura, Combs tracked her down and beat her in another room while Morales was in the vicinity. So obviously we know where the testimony's going to go with this witness.

14:49 So in her direct testimony, Morales corroborated some of that prior testimony from Cassie. She told the court she had stayed behind to take a nap on the couch of Venturre's Beverly Hills Hotel room the night of that Prince party, and she said I woke up to commotion. Later, she testified that venture came in and went straight to the bedroom with Combs behind her. She said the couple shut the door to the bedroom, and Morales said she heard yelling and screaming before Combs left that hotel. She did say that she did not witness what occurred between the couple, but she said Ventura came out of that room and had a swollen eye, a busted lip, and knots on her head after that incident, so it's not direct evidence, but it's definitely circumstantial, right. I always use this example for circumstantial evidence. If you hear thunder and lightning and you're inside a building and someone walks through the door of that building, they've got a umbrella that they're closing up, and then you walk outside later on and there's rain drops all over your car, the ground is wet. It's pretty safe to assume it rained. You didn't actually see it rain, but all the evidences there that it did.

16:09 Same thing here. You don't have to see Combs beating the shit out of her when she walks out of the room and you hear all this screaming prior to that, it's a pretty good assumption if she has a busted lip and all these other injuries that Combs hit her. Morales testified that Ventura stayed with her for a few days after that incident, and even a doctor friend came over to check on Cassie, but Cassie refused to go to the emergency room. She said the incident left Morales in fear for her life, so she didn't call the police. She said that she and Venturas saw each other a few times after that night, but never acknowledged or talked about the incident. So that was all the prosecution had for her. The defense gets up to cross examine her, and Morales confirmed she done a handful of interviews in recent months as these misconduct allegations have come out against Combe, and she acknowledged to speaking on the record to some pretty well known media figures. Don Lemon was brought up, Piers Morgan was brought up, and she did admit that she participated in some documentaries about Comb's and here y'all, the defense is just attempting to paint Morales as an attention seeker, which is a reach with this girl. But with that they ended their questioning and the prosecution called hotel manager Frederick Zeimer to the stand, and he was

17:41 the hotel manager for a Beverly Hills hotel that Comes stayed at often. He takes the stand and he testified that Combe's room would always require deep cleaning after Combe stayed there. He told the court that Comes would stay under an alias, and he said that no in the hotel profile for Combs said that Combs used excessive amounts of oil and spilled candle wax on everything. He also testified the room had to be marked out in order for a deep cleaning after Combe's left, and an additional five hundred dollars fee was commonly charged for damage and that was pretty much all. He testified to the defense, they didn't even cross examine this guy, had no questions for him. Next up was Josh Croft, a computer forensic expert with Homeland Security Investigations, and he testified that one MacBook Pro laptop from twenty ten or twenty eleven was reset to factory default, meaning someone basically reset that whole computer and tried to wipe it. But he said he was able to remove the hard drive and extract data that had not been wiped by that factory reset. He said the login screen was for a U Frank Black and that's come up several times. It appeared on the laptop, in addition to another log in for a guest user.

19:08 He said another laptop that they had powered on but had a clicking noise. He said the hard drive had to be removed to extract data, and he said he was unsuccessful at recovering all data, but got the majority of the data off that hard drive. He testified the laptop had dents and bending into him that indicated it had been dropped or bumped. And with that, court recessed for the day. The jury they're going to have a longer than usual break as well as the defense and the prosecution. With Memorial Day approaching, they're not going to have court tomorrow, which is Friday, and they will resume on Tuesday, and of course I'll be bringing you all the updates when court does resume, so we'll pick up again on Tuesday with this series. Now, a couple of announcements. First, I've played a couple of episodes on this feed of the Crime Whire Weekly. It's a podcast that I host with Kelly Jennings of Unspeakable, a true crime podcast by Kelly Jennings, and I'm going to drop one more episode of that probably over the weekend. Then it's going to go to its own feed, so it'll have its own show.

20:27 It'll be on its own feed, so look for that. I'm going to start linking how you can follow that show if you're enjoying it in the description of the podcast that I drop upcoming on this particular feed Exposed and I know that it gets kind of lost in the weeds here as I explained this. But if you're enjoying the show and you'd like to continue listening, we drop that once a week, but it'll be on its own feed. It won't be on this feed anymore after this episode that I'm dropping this weekend, but you'll you're right how to find it. And also I'm going to post some things on Facebook. Even more importantly, Monday brings to us Memorial Day, my absolute favorite holiday, because it honors those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice here in the United States so we can enjoy all these wonderful freedoms that we have. I have a very special episode dropping Monday. It's called Remembering Casey. Casey Frankowski sacrificed her life for our freedom, and it's coming your way Monday.

21:36 It's a story that you need to hear, and please consider sharing that podcast on your social media. Speaking of that, in honor of Memorial Day, I'm going to play you now about a ten minute speech that to me is one of the most amazing speeches of all time. I'm going to take you back to nineteen eighty four and President Ron Reagan as he spoke at the tomb of the unknown soldier on Memorial Day. It's absolutely amazing. I'm going to play it now. I won't do the normal ending that I normally do, except to tell you all this much love.

22:17 My fellow Americans. Memorial Day is a day of ceremonies and speeches throughout America. Today we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. We're also gathered here for a special event, the national funeral for an unknown soldier who will today join the heroes of three other wars. When he spoke at a ceremony at Gettysburg in eighteen sixty three, President Lincoln reminded us that through their deeds, the dead had spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could, and that we're living could only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they so willingly gave a last full measure of devotion. Well, this is especially so to day, for in our minds and hearts is the memory of Vietnam and all that that conflict meant for those who sacrificed on the field of battle, and for their loved ones who suffered here at home. Not long ago, when a memorial was dedicated here in Washington to our Vietnam veterans, the events surrounding that dedication were a stirring reminder of America's resilience, of how our nation could learn and grow and transcend the tragedies of the past.

23:45 During the dedication ceremonies, the roles of those who died and are still missing were read for three days in a candlelight ceremony at the National Cathedral. And the veterans of Vietnam, who were never welcomed home with speeches and bands, but who were never defeated in battle and were heroes as surely as any who have ever fought in a noble cause, staged their own parade on Constitution Avenue. As America watched them, some in wheel chairs, all of them proud. There was a feeling that this nation, that as a nation, we were coming together again, and that we had at long last welcomed the boy's home. A lot of healing went on, said one combat veteran who helped organize support for the memorial. And then there was this newspaper account that appeared after the ceremonies, I'd like to read it to you. Yesterday, crowds returned the memorial. Among them was Hervey Pettitt, a machinist and former marine from New Orleans.

24:51 Last night, he said, standing near the wall, I went out at dinner with some other ex Marines. There was also a group of college students in the restaurant. We started talking to each other, and before we left, they stood up and cheered us the whole week, Petted said, his eyes read it was worth it. Just for that, it has been worth it. We Americans have learned to listen to each other and to trust each other again. We've learned that government owes the people an explanation and needs their support for its actions at home and abroad. And we have learned, and I pray this time for good, the most valuable lesson of all, the preciousness of human freedom.

25:36 It has been a lesson relearned not just by Americans, but by all the people of the world. Yet, while the experience of Vietnam has given us a stark lesson that ultimately must move the conscience of the world, we must remember that we cannot to day, as much as some might want to close this chapter in our history, for the war in South East Asia still haunts a small but brave group of Americans, the families of those still missing in the Vietnam conflict. They live day and night with uncertainty, with an emptiness, with a void that we can at fathom. Today. Some sit among you. Their feelings are a mixture of pride and fear. They're proud of their sons or husbands, fathers or brothers who bravely and nobly answer the call of their country. But some of them fear that the ceremony writes a final chapter, leaving those they love forgotten or Today, then, one way to honour those who served or may still be serving in Vietnam is to gather here and rededicate ourselves to securing the answers for the families of those missing in action.

26:53 I ask the members of Congress, the leaders of veterans groups, and the citizens of an entire nation listening, to give these families your help and your support, for they still sacrifice and suffer. Vietnam is not over for them. They cannot rest until they know the fate of those they loved and watched march off to serve their country. Our dedication to their cause must be strengthened with these events. Today we write no last chapters, we close no books, we put away no final memories. An end to America's involvement in Vietnam cannot come before we have achieved the fullest possible accounting of those missing in action. This can only happen when their families know with certainty that this nation discharged her duty to those who served nobly and well.

27:54 Today a united people call upon Hanoi with one voice. Heal the sorest wound of this conflict, return our sons to America, and the grief of those who are innocent and undeserving of any retribution. The unknown soldier who has returned to us today, in whom we later rest, a symbolic of all our missing sons, and we will present him with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration that we can bestow about him. We may well wonder, as others have, as a child, did he play on some street in a great American city, Or did he work side his father on a farm out in America's heartland?

28:38 Did he marry? Did he have children? Did he look expectantly to return to a bride. We'll never know the answers to these questions about his life. We do know, though, why he died. He saw the horrors of war, but bravely face them. Certain his own cause, in his country's cause, was a noble one, that he was fighting for human dignity, for free men everywhere. Today we pause to embrace him and all who served us so well in a war whose end offered no parades, no flags, and so little thanks. We can be worthy of the values and ideals for which our sons sacrificed, worthy of their courage in the face of a fear that few of us will ever experience.

29:28 By honoring their commitment and devotion to duty and country, many veterans of Vietnam still serve in the armed forces, work in our offices, on our farms, in our factories. Most have kept their experience as private, but most have been strengthened by their call to duty. A grateful nation opens her heart today in gratitude for their sacrifice, for their courage, and for their noble service. Let us, if we must debate the lessons learned at some other time to day, we simply say, with pride, thank you dear son, May God cradled you in his loving arms. We present to you our nation's highest award, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for service above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy during the Vietnam Era.